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Re: [PATCH] Uninstall .dll last, reinstall first - final version
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 16:45:22 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Uninstall .dll last, reinstall first - final version
- References: <F76C9B2DA2FC4C4CA0A18E288BBCBCF71026F022@nihexchange24.nih.gov>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On May 4 09:05, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
> At Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On May 3 21:49, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >> The other potential solution would be to attempt to uninstall the
> >> packages in dependency-sorted order, but that might get awkward in
> >> the case of circular dependencies.
> >
> > See my previous posting: Circular dependencies are bugs, right?
> > Creating a dependency tree and complaining about circular dependencies
> > in setup would be nice, though.
> >
> > Corinna
>
> As you pointed out earlier, circular dependencies can be considered bugs in
> the setup.hint files. Shouldn't they be caught and fixed when setup.ini is
> being made? Then setup/Brian, which/who has enough to do, wouldn't have to
> worry about it.
In theory yes. It just won't hurt to have a dependency checker in setup
at one point, methinks.
Corinna
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